Security
Best file sharing vendors for data sovereignty in 2026
CTERA ranks #1 overall in our guide to enterprise file sharing and data sovereignty, with eight vendors, a detailed capability review, and a practical buyer checklist.
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Data & infrastructure
Honest guide to the best ClickHouse® alternatives in 2026
Firebolt leads our 2026 guide to ClickHouse alternatives for concurrent SQL analytics, with nine options, clear tradeoffs, and a practical evaluation checklist.
AI
AI agents are moving from impressive demos to dependable enterprise workflows
The next challenge for enterprise AI is operational: give agents a clear job, a measured boundary, and a reliable way to recover when work goes off course.
AI
The case for giving smaller models a bigger role in the AI stack
Model selection works best when it starts with a workload. A compact model can be a strong fit for a bounded task, provided the quality checks are specific.
Data & infrastructure
Your RAG system needs a freshness contract, not just a vector database
An answer can be grounded in a document and still be out of date. Retrieval systems need ownership, timestamps, and a plan for conflicting sources.
Business
The useful AI cost metric is cost per successful task
Token prices and hardware specifications tell only part of the story. Retries, waiting time, and review effort determine the economics people experience.
Security
AI governance gets practical when every decision has an evidence trail
A short, maintained record of purpose, ownership, evaluation, and change can help turn an AI policy into an operating practice.
Security
Prompt injection is an application boundary problem
When an assistant reads external material and can take actions, application permissions become as important as the prompt it receives.
Developer tools
Build AI evaluations around the decision your product needs to make
A meaningful test begins with the user task, the acceptable answer, and the cost of getting it wrong.